Charon (mythology)

Charon, in Greekmythology was the ferryman of the ghosts of the dead over the Styx into Hades, a grim old figure with a mean dress and a dirty beard, peremptory in exacting from the ghosts he ferried over the obolus allowed him for passage-money.[1]

References

↑Nuttall Encyclopedia of General Knowledge, article on Charon originally published in 1907 written by Reverend James Wood